A hot-shot journalist is swept up in a movement to challenge Apartheid in 1950s South Africa.

A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison’s worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud.

Frank and Lee have marital problems: he’s been impotent for 18 months, she alternates between sympathy and criticism. His temper gets the best of him, so he’s seeing a psychotherapist…